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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1918
Page
7
Local items note visits by A L Crecraft Claude Teeter and Martha Fulton. Families and friends meet in Oskaloosa and Libertyville as relatives travel to Burlington Morning Sun and Aberdeen. A gauge shop in the Elks building opens for war work with health precautions and garment work to resume on quota.
The United War Work drive will run November 11 through 18 to raise 170.5 million for seven agencies led by John R. Mott. Iowa’s state quota is 4.61 million with district No. 2 including Jefferson, Wapello, Appanoose, Davis, and Van Buren counties assigned 166,100. County quotas are Jefferson 29,900 Appanoose 35,000 Davis 23,100 Van Buren 24,600 Wapello 53,500. Donors are urged to support the seven organizations aiding camps and allied countries.
In a frontline report from France, the Forty-second Rainbow division led a three regiments push against Hill 288. Iowa’s One Hundred Sixty Sixth regiment broke through, cutting five lines of wire under heavy German resistance. The hill fell after six hours with about 1,800 Germans engaged and 107 captured, while American losses were heavy. John R. Davis notes the drive began September 12 at 1 am under rain and darkness, seizing prisoners, guns, and equipment in record speed.
On Thursday October 24 sale starts at ten o'clock with fifty five head of cattle including three cows with calves at side three cows due soon four black two year old heifers four black yearling steers white face heifer and steer yearlings four yearling black heifers a good black milch cow g004 red cow eighteen early spring calves six heifers ten steers two males nine dollars per head for spring and summer calves one yearling bull balance young calves implements listed including a farm wagon low down wagon hay rack sulky rake two plow corn planter gearless hay loader walking plow and other gear plus extra collars and harnesses. Terms made known on sale date.
Wm Ackerson and Col Chas Bailey acted as auctioneers with Wm Brawner as clerk. A luncheon was provided by the Ebenezer Ladies Aid Society.
Walter J Edwards of Fairfield Iowa writes from Camp Seviers South Carolina where Raymond Edwards in Co M 48th Infantry notes best camp near Blue Ridge mountains illness keeps soldiers confined and he hopes for a furlough hoping Boozy Woods has returned and mentions daily drilling with a late closing sign off as a son and serviceman.
London reports that in withdrawing from Flanders and the Belgian coast the Germans left behind vast airdromes. Northern Belgium may have been the Gotha home, and by moving eastward they lose bases closest to England, making air raids on London harder.
Franco-Serbian forces advance gaining Zafetchar and Necotin near the Danube, 45 miles northeast of Nish. Bolyevatz is reported captured and Trstenik entered along the Moravia valley, per a Serbian official statement issued Sunday.
John Vogelsang offers piano tuning and repair services with contact by phone 2412 and service area listed as 85-13. The brief ad presents a professional tradesman specializing in piano maintenance.
The article surveys origin of life ideas. discusses panspermia by meteors and atmospheric escape. It questions assuming life cannot originate on a cooling planet and notes ongoing scientific debate about how life begins and spreads in the universe.
An auction will be held at the E. D. Y. Culbertson farm located 2% miles west of Glasgow 7 miles north of Stockport and 9 miles southeast of Fairfield to sell cattle for winter needs. The sale will feature a large number of cattle offered to buyers in the region.
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